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Discover why Rapid7 is positioned highest among Visionaries for ability to execute

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About Gartner Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities The Magic Quadrant (MQ) provides a graphical comparative of technology and service providers according to a “Completeness of Vision” and “Ability to Execute” scale in a particular market. Gartner Critical Capabilities (CC) complement the Magic Quadrant by presenting a more detailed look at the products or services from key vendors. It offers comparative analysis backed by highly structured methodologies to show which products or services are the best fit in significant market-based usage scenarios. This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from Rapid7. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner re...

Splunk Power User

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Splunk Fundamentals - 1 Must not have any other Splunk Certification. One passing entry per-person. Competition closes on Jan 31, 2018. In the event of a tie, the $4000 will be shared among the winners. This course teaches you how to search and navigate in Splunk, use fields, get statistics from your data, create reports, dashboards, lookups, and alerts. Scenario-based examples and hands-on challenges will enable you to create robust searches, reports, and charts. It will also introduce you to Splunk's datasets features and Pivot interface. Course Topics Introduction to Splunk's interface Basic searching Using fields in searches Search fundamentals Transforming commands Creating reports and dashboards Creating and using lookups Scheduled Reports Alerts Using Pivot Course PrerequisitesNone Class Format Self-paced e-learning, requires HTML5 compatible browser. Course Objectives Module 1 - Introduction How to Use the eLearning Interface Overview of Buttercup ...

What does Tripwire Delivers?

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1. Cloud Cybersecurity Secure cloud-based platforms including Linux AWS environments and Docker containers with Tripwire. Get foundational controls across all of your physical, virtual, private and public cloud environments. Your assets in the cloud are not secured by default. Take responsibility for your security, compliance and operational controls in the cloud. Cloud Infrastructure Secure cloud-oriented platforms including  AWS Linux and Docker containers. Unified Management Provide foundational controls across physical, virtual, private and public cloud environments. Cloud Elasticity Maintain controls on dynamic assets with a solution that scales with your needs. Expert Assistance Use Tripwire’s experts to plan and implement your foundational  controls into the cloud. 2. Vulnerability Management Discover and profile all assets on your network with Tripwire...

Why Splunk Wins over others?

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Below are some of the key advantages of using splunk which will help you in understanding key features of splunk and why should you go for it :) Splunk Facts : - Identify and resolve issues upto 70% faster Reduces costly escalations by upto 90% SPlunk converts complex logs to visual graphs and reports resulting simplified analysis,reporting and troubleshooting No separate database requirements like oracle or SQL as splunk stores all data in its index supports any format and any amount of data -enables centralized log management Simple to implement and scale  Continually index all of your IT data in real time.  Automatically discover useful information embedded in your data, so you don't have to identify it yourself.  Search your physical and virtual IT infrastructure for literally anything of interest and get results in seconds.  Save searches and tag useful information, to make your system smarter.  Set up alerts to automate the monitori...

Cybersecurity?

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Cybersecurity is the body of technologies, processes and practices designed to protect networks, computers, programs and data from attack, damage or unauthorized access. In a computing context, security includes both cybersecurity and physical security. Ensuring cybersec urity requires coordinated efforts throughout an information system. Elements of cybersecurity include : Application security Information security Network security Disaster recovery / business continuity planning Operational security End-user education http://securityiris.com/home One of the most problematic elements of cybersecurity is the quickly and constantly evolving nature of security risks. The traditional approach has been to focus most resources on the most crucial system components and protect against the biggest known threats, which necessitated leaving some less important system components undefended and some less dangerous risks not protected against. Such an approach is insufficient in ...

Why Splunk?

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If you have a machine which is generating data continuously and you want to analyze the machine state in real time, then how will you do it? Splunk helps you to do this, the image below explains the same . Let us see what Splunk can do and why it has become so popular. Real time processing is Splunk’s biggest selling point because, we have seen storage devices get better and better over the years, we have seen processors become more efficient with every ageing day, but not data movement. This technique has not improved and this is the bottleneck in most of the processes within organizations. The other benefits with implementing Splunk are: Your input data can be in any format for e.g. .csv, or json or other formats You can configure Splunk to give Alerts / Events notification at the onset of a machine state You can accurately predict the resources needed for scaling up the infrastructure You can create knowledge objects for Operational Intelligence For those of you ...

J-1 Visa Responsibilities and Benefits

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Responsibilities Mandatory health insurance. Exchange Visitors are required as a condition of their J-1 status in the U.S. to carry health insurance for themselves and their accompanying family members. By government regulation, minimum coverage must provide up to $50,000 per accident or illness; $7,500 for repatriation of remains; $10,000 for medical evacuation to the home country; and a deductible not to exceed $500.00 per accident or illness. Students are required to purchase health insurance through Cal Poly Pomona. Enrollment and complete full-time coursework (12 units for undergraduate and 8 units for graduate students) during fall, winter and spring quarters. Do not work off-campus. Limit on-campus employment to a total of 20 hours or less while school is in session. Keep your passport valid at all times (if expired, renew at your country?s Consulate or Embassy in the U.S.) Request a travel signature on your DS-2019 at least one week before leaving the U.S. in orde...